Waymo robot car injures motorcyclist — but human driver at fault

A motorcyclist was injured in a collision with a Waymo self-driving car last month — but Waymo says the accident underscores the robot cars’ safety, as it was caused by the backup driver. The Oct. 19 accident came days before Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet … | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 5 years ago

Women are less likely to receive CPR–but why?

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@popsci.com | 5 years ago

Double the HQ2? What It Means If Amazon Splits Up Its Second Headquarters

It won't get double the tax incentives (probably). But it has other reasons for splitting up its second headquarters. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 5 years ago

Unpacking Hobo Codes

With the spread of American train networks in the late 1800s, more and more hobos (individuals without permanent jobs or homes) tried their luck on the rails, riding illegally across the country to find work and leaving their marks along the way, including visual symbols scrawled … | Continue reading


@99percentinvisible.org | 5 years ago

Self-encrypting SSDs (OPAL) insecure

Security experts frantically facepalming at stupid design | Continue reading


@theregister.co.uk | 5 years ago

No Server November

All November, we're posting a series of serverless challenges. Do the challenge, tweet it out, and you might get swag! | Continue reading


@serverless.com | 5 years ago

Siamo un network informativo che dal 1888 ascolta, aggiorna e sostiene i professionisti dell'editoria. | Continue reading


@giornaledellalibreria.it | 5 years ago

La dieta audio in Germania. Radio al mattino, podcast al pomeriggio e audiolibri alla sera

Quali sono i servizi audio preferiti dal pubblico tedesco? Una recente indagine consente di fare luce su un mondo costituito da svariate tipologie di prodotti e di supporti. | Continue reading


@giornaledellalibreria.it | 5 years ago

The format=flowed FAQ

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@joeclark.org | 5 years ago

Uber driver releases video of pro hockey players badmouthing coach

Warning: The above video contains strong language.A number of Ottawa Senators openly joke about their penalty-killing abilities, mock one of their coaches and laugh at the ineffectiveness of specia… | Continue reading


@ottawasun.com | 5 years ago

Sharing by proxy: Invisible users in the sharing economy

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@firstmonday.org | 5 years ago

Daily Pathtracer [blog series]

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@aras-p.info | 5 years ago

Show HN: Willing to hunt – Top hunters willing to post products on Producthunt

Get your product posted on Producthunt.com by top hunters. | Continue reading


@hunter.tidily.io | 5 years ago

Linuxbrew

The Homebrew package manager for Linux | Continue reading


@linuxbrew.sh | 5 years ago

Writing an OS in Rust (Second Edition)

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@os.phil-opp.com | 5 years ago

India's low-cost smart home system

This IIT student has developed an indigenous, low-cost smart home system | Continue reading


@thehindu.com | 5 years ago

Robot Cowboy Is Herding Cattle in Nebraska

A 450-pound robot cowboy has been driving cattle and keeping workers safe at a Cargill beef plant in Schuyler, Nebraska. | Continue reading


@yellrobot.com | 5 years ago

Billionaires Are Raging and the Minimum Wage Is on the Ballot

The minimum wage is on the ballot, people. | Continue reading


@vice.com | 5 years ago

Priority disputes

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

Anymod: add any feature to any website

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@anymod.com | 5 years ago

Named Entity Recognition and the Road to Deep Learning

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@nlp.town | 5 years ago

Yet another meal kit company bites the dust

Just Add Cooking (JAC), the Boston-based meal kit company specializing in hyperlocal meal kits from the New England area, has ceased operations. The news went out today via an email to customers fr… | Continue reading


@thespoon.tech | 5 years ago

Quiet Beach Cottage in Myrtle Beach

Photo of a Quiet Beach Cottage in Myrtle Beach | Continue reading


@landlopers.com | 5 years ago

Consider setting focusable=“false” on SVG icons for Internet Explorer

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@webplatform.news | 5 years ago

Election outcome predictions?

Folks: What are your election outcome predictions? So much of the ballot in our town is taken up by candidates running unopposed that I haven’t put much effort into considering Massachusetts … | Continue reading


@philip.greenspun.com | 5 years ago

Multiple source effect

Different sources mean different perspectives | Continue reading


@medium.com | 5 years ago

Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them, even when their faces are hidden from cameras. Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shan … | Continue reading


@apnews.com | 5 years ago

The un-holy history of Holy City, the Bay Area's most racist tourist trap

Holy City was neither holy nor a city. It can most kindly be described as a white supremacist hangout attached to a roadside attraction. In order to draw attention - and new converts - Riker created a must-see tourist stop along the new roads through the Santa Cruz mountains. Ho … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 5 years ago

Grayscale mode - F.lux v4.84

What's new with f.lux | Continue reading


@justgetflux.com | 5 years ago

Improving IoT Interoperability: Decentralized Ambient Synchronization Over MDNS

At Moddable we believe IoT products should be open and customizable by the end user. The current lack of standards for interoperability means that there are too many IoT products that connect to only one cloud service or interoperate only with other products from the same company … | Continue reading


@blog.moddable.com | 5 years ago

Election Update: Facebook takes down accounts linked to foreign entities

US law enforcement contacted us about online activity that they recently discovered and believe may be linked to foreign entities. | Continue reading


@newsroom.fb.com | 5 years ago

Here is what your Chinese scam robocalls are saying

If it seems like you're getting more robocalls than ever, it's because you are. Here's a look at all the phone scams circulating in the Bay Area and beyond, including the San Francisco Chinese Embassy Scam. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 5 years ago

Hacker's Delight

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@hackersdelight.org | 5 years ago

Tim Berners-Lee unveils 'contract' to protect and strengthen the web

Facebook and Google are among the 60 backers of a vision to make the web a better experience for future generations. | Continue reading


@cnet.com | 5 years ago

The packaging gradient, and why PyPI isn't an app store

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@sedimental.org | 5 years ago

Chairman Pai Demands Industry Adopt Protocols to End Illegal Spoofing

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@fcc.gov | 5 years ago

Introducing Solidity Koans – Learn Ethereum programming by making tests pass

Learn Solidity through simple programming exercises | Continue reading


@hackernoon.com | 5 years ago

Fourier Series (Dover Books on Mathematics) by Georgi P. Tolstov

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@amazon.com | 5 years ago

October surprise

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@en.wikipedia.org | 5 years ago

How China Drove Out Mister Softee

Turner Sparks brought the iconic New York ice-cream truck to Suzhou. It was a hit. Then the hammer fell. | Continue reading


@nymag.com | 5 years ago

Is it time to is pull the plug on hate speech online? Can AI help?

In light of Pittsburgh’s synagogue murders and other recent hate crimes, is it time to crack down on the social media hate crazies? Can AI help? | Continue reading


@diginomica.com | 5 years ago

AWS Price List API Update – New Query and Metadata Functions – AWS News Blog

The original AWS Price List API, as described in New – AWS Price List API, gave you access to prices in JSON and CSV form by way of structured URLs. While this worked well for some types of cost management tools, the size and complexity of the files made them difficult to downloa … | Continue reading


@aws.amazon.com | 5 years ago

Millions of frogs are factory farmed in shocking conditions

Let's give frogs, and all farm animals, a voice. Here's how, according to the The Humane League | Continue reading


@inews.co.uk | 5 years ago

Testing Millimeter Wave for 5G

Stumbling blocks emerge for ensuring reliability of next-gen wireless devices. | Continue reading


@semiengineering.com | 5 years ago

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai calls for an end 'illegal robocalls'

He wants a system to detect illegally spoofed calls. | Continue reading


@cnet.com | 5 years ago

Web pioneer wants new 'contract' for internet

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@m.france24.com | 5 years ago

What Makes Tesla’s Autopilot Different

As Elon Musk works to prove that he can make Tesla profitable and his Autopilot feature safe, it’s worth understanding the difference in how Tesla is developing self-driving car technology versus other companies.These differences relate in part to a potential advantage that Tesla … | Continue reading


@theinformation.com | 5 years ago

Yes Aol Mail Is Down for the Past Two Hours

Reports have been coming in the for the past 2 hours that AOL Mail is down. It is not currently known what is causing the outage, but the AOL Customer Support Twitter account has stated tht the company is looking into issues with both AOL and Yahoo. | Continue reading


@bleepingcomputer.com | 5 years ago